factoid

Noun

Meaning

a brief (usually one sentence and usually trivial) news item

something resembling a fact; unverified (often invented) information that is given credibility because it appeared in print

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Almost as compulsive is the urge to add a second factoid along the lines of 'Leonardo Da Vinci believed that the human form displays the golden ratio.' Source: Internet

I saw an article or factoid somewhere and the average take from a bank robbery in the USA is less than $4,500 or so. Source: Internet

Here is a Presidents Day factoid for ya. it was President Ulysses S. Grant in 1870 that established the weather service. Source: Internet

Here's another interesting factoid about the turnover of people in the Houston area due to corporate transferring and the region's growth: It's about 200,000 people a year. Source: Internet

I got a PM last night from a gentleman who thought to educate me on the hitherto unsuspected factoid that black people use El Verboto. Source: Internet

So it is a factoid that "factoid" means something that is true. Source: Internet

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